David Benioff Quotes
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.
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To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
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It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!
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When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
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A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
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As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.
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That's our goal every year, to win the World Series, like it is at most places. In L.A., it really is.
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I think it's becoming cool to have mental toughness or to meditate. It's a thing, but I don't think people really understand the value of it.
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I don't think the government should be involved in any way in people's bedrooms or lives. With so much hatred and unpleasantness in the world, why would you want to get in the way of people who love each other marrying each other?
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'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.
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I like having my own story remain my story.
